New Trend? RMT using MAR bots

[KageTokage]

This isn't new at all. MRDs are traditionally used as RMT spam bots due to them starting off in Limsa Lominsa. The ones hiding under the floor are free accounts, as they're only able to advertise in /say. The shout spammers that stay out in the open are paid accounts.

The silly thing is that they apparently updated the spam filter again so now they need to break up their spam with so many random characters that it's now a totally garbled, nigh incomprehensible mess that I don't think most players would even bother trying to read.

I'm also pretty sure they don't have any kind of "algorithm" for banning gil farm bots, because they're extremely inconsistent about how often they get banned. Sometimes, they scarcely last a week; other times, they're able to exist for over a month.